our allies no longer trust us or have confidence in us and our adversaries no longer fear us. when the president could make bold statements and bold talk as did he in the last couple of days about developments in syria, but i don't think they care. >> steve: this president just all talk. >> i don't want to pick a fight with vice president cheney because i was one of the reporters who absolutely stuck by every word the vice president said in the build-up to the iraq war and we went to war and i was one of the boosters of a war that was based on false premises that iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. >> brian: but you're in good company because hosni mubarak thought the same thing, german chancellor thought the same thing. >> steve: hillary clinton. >> we followed the president and president bush into war and now i think this president is being understandably cautious. listen, because saddam hussein had used sarin gas on his own people in 1988, it was not a giant leap to assume that he was going to use them on us or on his neighbors. >> brian: in the aftermath of th